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Cormiston Towers

Tower House (Medieval)(Possible)

Site Name Cormiston Towers

Classification Tower House (Medieval)(Possible)

Canmore ID 48659

Site Number NT03NW 3

NGR NT 001 372

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council South Lanarkshire
  • Parish Symington (Clydesdale)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Clydesdale
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Archaeology Notes

NT03NW 3 001 372

All vestiges of the fortalice which existed at Cormiston Tower farm have long ago disappeared. The Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB) states that it stood in the neighbourhood of the steading.

Name Book 1857; G V Irving and A Murray 1864.

(Centred NT 001 372) No trace of this tower was discovered. Cormiston Tower farmstead is now known as Home Farm.

Visited by OS (RD), 11 July 1972.

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